>I have a Sony SDT-7000 tape drive to be used to back up a Linux server.
>Everything was fine until I tried to back up a large amount of data on a
>20gb drive. I have tried using both dump and tar and with each got a message
>at the end of the first volume that it was time to change volumes. When I
>did so, I got an I/O error message and had to abort the dump (or tar).
When you say "volume", are you refering to the tape as a volume, or the disk ?
The reason I ask is that, if you are TARing, there is a special switch to
span tapes. See the man page(s).
>I suspect there may be something wrong with the driver. Formerly I used this
>same drive on a SCO Unix box without a problem.
The driver sounds OK - probably just the command you're using...
Now, if anyone can tell me how to get my DDS3 drive to back up more than
4Gb (it's a 12/24 Gb drive !!) on DDS3 tapes...:-)
Jon
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